One More Thing: 'iTunes Match' Will Upgrade Your Ripped Music For $24.99 A Year

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs just announced his infamous “one more thing” at WWDC and it’s iTunes In The Cloud-related; iTunes Match will upgrade your ripped songs to 256 kpbs AAC DRM-free for a $24.99 yearly subscription.

Basically iTunes Match will scan a users iTunes library for any music you haven’t bought through iTunes and subscribers will be able to get a high quality copy of those songs for iTunes In The Cloud.

“It takes just minutes. Not weeks,” said Jobs on the turnover time to upgrading your music, using hyperbole to poke fun at competitors Google and Amazon who have also recently launched their own cloud services.

iTunes Match will rest on the fact that iTunes has 18 million songs already available in the iTunes store, “The chances are good we have the songs you’ve ripped. So we have software to scan your music and match it with the store,” Jobs explained. “We give that music the same benefits as purchased music.”

So Apple’s basically betting you’ll pay $25 a year to legalize all your content, and for the convenience of having it with you everywhere. Guess that’s better than losing the $25 you weren’t paying Apple before.

DescriptioniCloud is a mobile- and web-based application that enables its users to store their important information. It automatically backs up its users’ devices over Wi-Fi every day while they are turned on, locked, or connected to a power source.
The application allows its users to access music, photos, documents, and more from any device. It also helps its users back up their iOS devices, find lost devices, …

DescriptioniTunes, Apple's digital media player application, was introduced in January 2001. The application allows you to organize and play your digital music and podcast files.
iTunes is available as a free download for Mac OS X and Windows.
iTunes is able to interface on the iPod digital media player and on Apple's mobile device, the iPhone